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The Writing Process: One Step at a Time

By Lisa VanDamme

May 22, 2007
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According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (or NAEP), the average high school student is an incompetent writer. To evaluate their writing ability, testers asked high school juniors to write a paragraph based on notes they were given about a haunted house. The performance of half the students was judged to be either unsatisfactory or mi…

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